Ian Frazier
Conducted by Columbia MFA Professor Lis Harris
Thursday, October 1st, 8 pm Dodge Hall, Room 413
Ian Frazier, a writer of humor, essays, and longer works of nonfiction became a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine in 1973, a year after graduation from college. In 1982 he moved to Montana to research his book Great Plains (1989), which became a national bestseller. After that he wrote Family (1995), a book about his ancestors in the Midwest and elsewhere, and On the Rez (2000), about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His collections of humor pieces are Dating Your Mom, Coyote v. Acme, and Lamentations of the Father. His other books include Gone to New York and The Fish’s Eye. Currently he is working on a book about Siberia, excerpts from which recently appeared in The New Yorker.
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Columbia Faculty Selects
Thursday October 1st
7:00-9:00pm
KGB bar
85 East 4th St. NYC 10003
Thursday October 1st
7:00-9:00pm
KGB bar
85 East 4th St. NYC 10003
The first Thursday of each month the Columbia MFA program hosts a reading series with writers selected by the faculty. These fresh talents have finished their coursework and are finished with or near to finished with their first books, but do not yet have a book contract and/or an agent. In recent years, many of these featured writers have achieved critical and commercial success.
This Week:
Ruchika Tomar grew up in California. She is currently working on a short story, or a bunch of short stories, or a novel, or a novella, or an epic. She likes surprises.
Josh Bettinger’s poems have been published in or are forthcoming from Oxford Poetry and Western Humanities Review. He is currently completing a chapbook written while in Southeast Asia entitled “A Dynamic Range of Various Designs for Quiet.”
Matia Burnett mostly likes to write about stray dogs, orphans, and haunted houses. She is currently completing her first novel, The Builders, which--despite taking place in the 19th century--she assures you is NOT historical fiction. She works at Publishers Weekly.
Josh Bettinger’s poems have been published in or are forthcoming from Oxford Poetry and Western Humanities Review. He is currently completing a chapbook written while in Southeast Asia entitled “A Dynamic Range of Various Designs for Quiet.”
Matia Burnett mostly likes to write about stray dogs, orphans, and haunted houses. She is currently completing her first novel, The Builders, which--despite taking place in the 19th century--she assures you is NOT historical fiction. She works at Publishers Weekly.
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